Name: The Stories We Tell Exhibition
Start: 2026-02-13T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-02-13T20:00:00-08:00
Location: 355 24th St

The Stories We Tell features seven Creative Growth artists who translate their lived and imagined experiences into vivid visual narratives.
About this Event

The Stories We Tell Exhibition features artists currently practicing at Creative Growth: Kristian Cheek, Meyshe Shapiro-Nygren, John Martin, William Tyler, Larry Randolph, and George Wilson. Together, these artists all have a form of storytelling within their individual practices that takes the viewer into worlds both imagined and real.

The exhibition will also feature several films made in Creative Growth’s digital media lab, which often highlight the talent of various artists coming together to create films with incredible imagination, humor, and vision. Highlights include John Hiltunen’s Jon Bon Trilogy, William Tyler’s two films, Robot and Son and Cat and Chicken, and Starquarius, which tells the story of the last starship Starquarius on a mission to save planet Earth.

Together, these artists and their work represent the power of how stories can change how people see the world. They can challenge assumptions, inspire hope, or motivate action.

Lead image by William Tyler.

About Creative Growth:

Founded in 1974, Creative Growth is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, California, that advances the inclusion of artists with developmental disabilities in contemporary art and strengthens community by providing a supportive studio environment and gallery representation.

The Creative Growth Gallery exhibits and promotes Creative Growth artists by placing their work in major collections and institutions worldwide. It presents public exhibitions in the Oakland gallery and represents Creative Growth artists at national and international art fairs every year.As a non-profit gallery, all artwork sales directly support the artists and Creative Growth, which uses the proceeds to purchase materials and keep the program running.

Our artists have been acquired by prominent collections worldwide, including MoMA, SFMOMA, Centre Pompidou, the Smithsonian, the Studio Museum of Harlem, Collection de L’Art Brut, Treger St. Silvestre Collection, ICA Miami, and the American Folk Art Museum.